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Just 3? Now that's a difficult question to answer, seeing as I always have much more than that running. Well, I'll try to answer anyway I suppose

1. Opera - For absolutely all of my browsing and e-mail needs. 2. E Text Editor - Quite possibly the best thing since sliced bread. Text editors doesn't get better than this (on Windows at least).3. Directory Opus 9 - Don't know how I ever lived without it in the past.

There are of course other applications I use just as much, and I feel kinda bad having to leave them out of such a list

Things like evernote an organizer pop peeper to check for mail and farr and a clipboard all start at startup and are used just as required, things I need, but as for the ones i actually start from choice,Firefox is by far the most usedWord 2003 Idea Mason and Roughdraft (equal now)

Ok - 1 problem with this thread - Browsers & Email clients - They're always going to be in there and not very interesting. I wish the topic were "Top 3 programs you use Plus your Email client & Browser..."

So, mini-rant over... errr... Almost... Opera and Outlook Express and Outlook and Firefox and IE... I hate having to use them all and wish I could settle on just one - not possible unfortuneately...

Oh - 1 more thing - Windows Explorer or replacement. It's not possible to use Windows without it. Ok - it's "possible", but very difficult... I use Windows Explorer... Too lazy to bother testing the trillions of replacements out there. Ok - there - mini-rant is 100% over.

Ok - 1 problem with this thread - Browsers & Email clients - They're always going to be in there and not very interesting. I wish the topic were "Top 3 programs you use Plus your Email client & Browser..."

Agreed!

Allow me to amend my top 3:

1. Directory Opus2. ClipMate 7 ( sorry mouser!)3. Roboform

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About those posts above.. I actually do do graphics, and whats illegal about it??

As a joke ken was probably suggesting that you must be in the business of beautifying a lot of, ahemâ€¦. pictures???

Now, about the top 3 programs...?? This is just very difficult to answer without more precise parameters. And the others are right: it's hard to escape MS explorer (or replacements-- am considering Directory Opus), browsers (am using Maxthon), etc.

Anyway... if excluding the above and many others, the programs that I seem to be using the most ("timewise"... does that exist??), actively (so, no antivirus, firewall, etc.), are :

- Farr (because... it IS the best. Launchy and the other "launchers" are a lot less powerful, sorry... )- Clipboard Help + Spell (because it does everything I need in a clipboard enhancer...)- MS Word 2003 (because I live in it... In Maxthon 1.6, X1, AHK and Outlook 2003 too, should I add... But... only three, only three....)

An unfair list, for sure... As these won't do much without at least 10 other essential -- or at least vey important... -- pals.

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"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."Glenn Gould

Ok - 1 problem with this thread - Browsers & Email clients - They're always going to be in there and not very interesting. I wish the topic were "Top 3 programs you use Plus your Email client & Browser..."

Agreed!

I double Agree... so let's see:1. LaunchBarCommander [Get's me into applications]2. RoboForm [Get's me into sites]3. Then comes the long list of productivity applications, the top being, um, ummmmm: PSPad would be involved in most aspects of what I do I'd think?

Giving it some more thought, and after considering a few things about the purpose of providing this list of applications, I would have to revise it to not include anything that loads at startup, since it's research for some type of application launcher.

Since it has been suggested to leave out the boring browsers and email clients, I am going to have to change the entire list.

Here are the top 3 things that I use that are not a browser or email client, do not load at startup, aren't launched automatically from within or by another application, and are instead launched manually by some sort of shortcut:

1. Windows Live Writer (best desktop blogging application I have ever used)2. Notepad 2 (I click the icon to open that more times a day than I can count)3. Paintshop Pro

I double Agree... so let's see:1. LaunchBarCommander [Get's me into applications]2. RoboForm [Get's me into sites]3. Then comes the long list of productivity applications, the top being, um, ummmmm: PSPad would be involved in most aspects of what I do I'd think?

Good point App: I have not had Wakoopa installed for some time, but looking back and using your non-auto start suggestion I'd have:1. MS Visual Studio2. PS Pad3. MS Excel (How could I forget all the time I spend on Excel?)